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CHARLES WILLERT AND YVILLIAM L. ZEIGER, OF ATHENA, OREGON.

LEATHER-BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,159, dated June 17, 1890 Application filed October 12, 1889. Serial No. 326,796. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES WILLERT and WILLIAM L. ZEIGER, citizens of the United States, residing at Athena, in the county of Umatilla and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Leather-Bearing, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to bearings or boxes of that class which are subjected to great amount of wear, such as, for instance, in a pitman-box of mowers and reapers and similar machinery; and the invention has particular reference to a bushing or lining for the boxes, whereby the life of the bearing is lengthened.

WVith these general objects in View the inven tion consists in a box formed in sections or halves, each of the sections forming onehalf of the bearing and having its inner face provided with a semicircular recess guarded upon each end by end walls, said recess being extended at its lateral sides in one of the bearing-sections and in both sections mountin gwithin the recess a correspondingly-forined leather bushing cemented and pressed into place within the recesses.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a bearing-box constructed in accordance with ourinvention. Figs. 2 and 3 are plan views of each of the sections; Fig. 4, a transverse section. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 represents the upper section of the box, and 2 the lower section, each forming onehalf of the box and being of the ordinary construotion. The section 1 is provided with an exterior semicircular recess 3, and the section 2 with opposite lugs 4 in this instance, and in the groove of the upper section there is mounted yoke 5 of the pitman 6, the ends of the yoke projecting through the lugs and bound in position by nuts 7. The inner faces of the halves or sections are recessed from near one end to the other, as at 8, leaving thin end beads or walls 9 at the end of each of the recesses. WVithin the recesses are pressed snugly and preferably cemented semicircular bushings 10 of leather.

The section 2, as before stated, is provided with the perforated lugs, and consequently is somewhat thicker at its lateral edges than is the section Land in the edges of this section are formed small lateral recesses 12, into which take corresponding extensions or cars formed on the opposite edges of the leather bushing that take into said section 2.

Having described our invention, what we claim is In a bearing-box, the combination of the upper section having a semicircular recess in its inner face, a semicircular leather bushing conforming to and cemented in the recess, the lower section of the box having internal semicircular recesses terminating at both ends in lateral recesses, and a semicircular leather bushing having laterally-extending ends arranged in said lateral recesses, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto aflixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES WILLERT. v \VILLIAM L. ZEIGER.

Witnesses:

Z. XV. LOOKWOOD, WILLARD CRAWFORD. 

